Re:Fake news was illegal in 17th century colonial Massachusetts
by maskedSlacker on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @09:52PM
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> We abolished slavery a few centuries ago.
Slavery has never been abolished. It was simply made illegal in most places under most circumstances. By any definition of slavery there are more people in bondage today than at any time in the past.
Even taking your claim of abolition at face value, the only reason chattel slavery was "abolished" in the US was because its abolition became a way of ending a particularly bloody war by taking away one sides motive for fighting. Before that (i.e. before a majority of the citizenry saw abolition as benefitting themselves) there was not enough popular support for abolition.
Re:Fake news was illegal in 17th century colonial Massachusetts
by ekianjo on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @10:06PM
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More people in bondage? in absolute numbers this is captain obvious level of argument since we have had a demographic explosion in the 20th century. Percentage wise you would be way wrong since poverty has been steadily decreasing everywhere around the world and very rapidly.
All human history of progress goes against this claim.
We abolished slavery a few centuries ago.
Marijuana is being legalized in various countries and states.
etc.
> The Internet isn't going to magically change human nature.
On the contrary, civilization has always challenged "what is acceptable/right/wrong/etc". The internet is allowing us to accelerate this process with easier communication between and congregation of dissidents.